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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very hot days |
| Synonyms: | Indian Summer, canicular days, canicule, hot weather, summer |
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| Main Entry: | summer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hot season of the year |
| Synonyms: | daylight savings time, dog days, heat, midsummer, picnic days, riot time, summer solstice, summertide, summertime, sunny season, vacation |
| Antonyms: | winter |
| Main Entry: | heat wave |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hot spell |
| Synonyms: | canicular days, dog days, high summer, hot wave, warm front |
| Main Entry: | warm front |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | warm air moving in |
| Synonyms: | dog days, heat wave, hot spell, hot wave |
| Main Entry: | hotness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heat |
| Synonyms: | calefaction, calidity, dog days, fervor, fever, fieriness, heatwave, hot spell, hot weather, incalescence, incandescence, sultriness, swelter, torridity, torridness, warmness, warmth |
| Main Entry: | torridity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heat |
| Synonyms: | calefaction, calidity, dog days, fervor, fever, fieriness, heatwave, hot spell, hot weather, hotness, incalescence, incandescence, sultriness, swelter, torridness, warmness, warmth |
| Main Entry: | torridness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heat |
| Synonyms: | calefaction, calidity, dog days, fervor, fever, fieriness, heatwave, hot spell, hot weather, hotness, incalescence, incandescence, sultriness, swelter, torridity, warmness, warmth |
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| Main Entry: | heat |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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ablaze, adiaphoretic, afire, alight, anhidrotic, ardent, baking, blazing, blood-hot, blood-warm, buldering, burning-hot, burnt, calefacient, calorific, candent, canicular, close, coctile, combustible, deflagrable, diaphoretic, diathermal, diathermanous, ebullient, estiferous, estival, euthermic, fervent, fervid, fiery, genial, glowing, heated, heating, hidrotic, hot, hot as fire, hot as pepper, hot enough to roast an ox, igneous, ignescent, in a blaze, in a fever, in a glow, in a heat, in a perspiration, in a sweat, in flames, incalescent, incandescent, inflamed, inflammable, isotheral, isothermal, isothermic, kindling, like a furnace, like an oven, lukewarm, mild, molten, on fire, oppressive, piping-hot, plutonic, pyretic, red-hot, reeking, scumfished, semiustulate, smoking, smoking-hot, smoldering, sodden, stifling, stuffy, sudoriferous, sudorific, suffocating, sultry, sunny, sweltered, sweltering, sweltry, swullocking, tepid, thalpotic, thermal, thermic, torrid, tropical, unextinguished, unfrozen, unquenched, ustulated, volcanic, warm, warm as toast, warm as wool, white-hot
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| Concept: | Heat. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; heat |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
heat, caloric; temperature, warmth, fervor, calidity; incalescence, incandescence; glow, flush; fever, hectic., phlogiston; fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze; bonfire; firework, pyrotechny; wildfire; sheet of fire, lambent flame; devouring element; adiathermancy; recalescence., summer, dog days; canicular days; baking heat, white heat, tropical heat, African heat, Bengal heat, summer heat, blood heat; sirocco, simoom; broiling sun; insolation; warming., sun (luminary)., [Science of heat] pyrology; thermology, thermotics; thermometer.
-verbs
be hot; glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, broil, blaze, flame; smolder; parch, fume, pant., heat (make hot); recalesce; thaw, give.
-adjectives
hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen; thermal, thermic; calorific; fervent, fervid; ardent; aglow., sunny, torrid, tropical, estival, canicular; close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive; reeking; baking., red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning hot, piping hot; like a furnace, like an oven; hot as fire, hot as pepper; hot enough to roast an ox., fiery; incandescent, incalescent; candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking; live; on fire; dazzling; in flames, in a blaze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished; smoldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific; sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool., volcanic, plutonic, igneous; isothermal, isothermic, isotheral.
-phrases
not a breath of air; "whirlwinds of tempestuous fire" [Paradise Lost].
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| Antonyms: | cold |
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